Archives for
June 2009

This week was dominated by two big stories: the iPhone and the Iran election crisis. Apple released the iPhone 3.0 OS upgrade and a brand new iPhone, the 3G S. Tweetdeck also jumped into the Twitter app race with its own free iPhone application. On t...

UPDATE: Reports now say work was being done to repair the crack in the weeks leading up to the collapse. A four story building collapsed in Brooklyn today, just before 2pm. The "Vesper Bar & Lounge" at 493 Myrtle Avenue is completely unrecognizable a...

Yesterday we published 10 Powerful YouTube Videos from Iran, including a particularly graphic video of an Iranian girl dying on the street - we now know her name, Neda. The deeply distressing video is becoming a defining moment in Iran's disputed ele...

One of the striking aspects of the #IranElection crisis has been the heavy use of social media. Iranians have relied on it to spread information on protests and to communicate their situation to millions of concerned people worldwide. In fact, so muc...

Have some sympathy for Twitter user Andrew Schneider, who just found out his apartment collapsed today. Andrew, who has maintains a Tumblelog, a Twitter account, a Dopplr profile and other social media pages - and who last year presented at O'Reilly'...

There's an interesting discussion on top of Reddit's front page today. It starts with a criticism of Twitter's media coverage; the poster claims that Twitter is overrated, being simply a way for less tech-savvy users to join the various social media ...

It's a brand new week, which means it's time for Mashable’s guide to upcoming social media and web events, parties, and conferences. For more upcoming event listings, check out Mashable's Events section. Not on this list? Contact us and let’s establi...

Update (June 24): The issue continues and the attackers have switched their URLs to innocuous-looking Bloglines URLs containing the word "twitterbest". -- Web security company Panda Security contacted us today to warn that malware links have started ...

When it comes to online censorship and monitoring online activities, the first country that usually comes to mind is China and its Great Firewall. This, however, may soon change, as it seems that Iran has built one of the most advanced systems for mo...

After being on the end of harsh criticism and even having some of its search features blocked by China, Google has promised to completely remove all pornographic content from its indexes on the Chinese version of its search engine, Google.cn. Accordi...

Typically celebrity blogger Perez Hilton reports news of other celebrities on his infamous Hollywood gossip blog. But when it comes to telling the world about an incident involving himself, Hilton’s medium of choice was Twitter, which has lead to som...

Want to lose weight, tone up, or just get healthy? Join the club. Most of us are always searching for ways to better our bodies, preferably with little to no work. Unfortunately, no one has really capitalized on the web as a platform for body reform....

Over the weekend, we learned that Steve Jobs recently had a liver transplant, but that his return to Apple was imminent. Today, the company’s iconic leader is out with a statement, at least in press release form. Complimenting an announcement that mo...

This week, we're announcing #FindingTheGood, our newest themed week of Mashable's Summer of Social Good campaign. As a part of #FindingTheGood, we'll be providing you with a closer look at the four charities involved in Summer of Social Good -- WWF, ...

We expected that President Obama might use the enormous social media influence he accumulated during his campaign to encourage community service. And earlier this year, Serve.gov was launched as part of this direction. Today, however, Google has gott...

If you had 3.6 million Twitter followers and counting, what would you do with all of that influence? Well, if you're Ashton Kutcher (@aplusk) and Demi Moore (@mrskutcher), you'd put your combined Twitter influence (Ashton alone has far surpassed the ...

Dunkin' Donuts has been on a social media tear of late. Not only are they one of our top 40 brands on Twitter, but they're also attempting to merge offline and online efforts in a Facebook campaign with a heavy tie-in to their Coolatta product releas...

This is the first post in Mashable's Summer of Social Good series on #FindingTheGood, a week of posts dedicated to profiling charitable initiatives using social media. LIVESTRONG is one of the four Summer of Social Good charities. A diagnosis of canc...

VideoEgg, a well-known advertising network, began experimenting with a new ad type back in April: Twig. Twig is an advertisement unit that is impossible to miss, mostly because it's a bar (an "AdFrame") that always appears at either the top or the bo...

There's been a lot of online buzz about Drew Olanoff's Blame Drew's Cancer campaign (Drew was diagnosed with cancer earlier this year) to raise awareness and funds for the American Cancer Society and Make a Wish Foundation. In fact, our post earlier ...

Twitter is one of the most viral platforms on the social web. One link can be spread to millions of people in a matter of minutes. Perhaps the primary reason for this is the Twitter retweet (or "RT"), which provides Twitter users an easy way to share...

Is there anything you can't do with Posterous? Not only can you can use it as an alternate TwitPic, turn email lists into group blogs, and share anything with a super smart bookmarklet, but now you can also import from major blogging platforms like W...

There's a reason we make scrapbooks, create photo albums, and write personal journals: we want to record our memories. Unlike material possessions, you cannot replace what you did and who you were with. But, memories are a lot tougher to share. Socia...

Last November, we learned about Alice.com, a website that promised “free shipping, saving you time, and making sure you never run out of bathroom tissue." At the time, we wondered what exactly the founders of social shopping network Jellyfish (bought...

From July 1st and onwards, all PCs sold in China must be shipped with an Internet filtering program called Green Dam. This application, besides being a possible security risk, is supposed to protect the people of China from online pornography, but it...

A recent Adobe presentation reveals that the planned release date of Flash 10 beta for smartphones is somewhere between October 4th and 7th, which is when Adobe's MAX conference takes place. Android, Palm WebOS, Windows Mobile and Symbian devices are...

Today is Alan Turing's birthday, and there's nothing unusual about "Alan Turing" being one of the trending topics on Twitter. However, if you aren't careful, you might end up clicking the wrong link and picking up some malware along the way. As usual...

The moment many iPhone owners have been waiting for is here: the iPhone Dev-Team's Ultrasn0w unlock for iPhone OS 3.0 is ready for public consumption. Unfortunately, this unlock currently works only with the 1st generation iPhone, as well as iPhone 3...

When we said that TwitPic finally got a real competitor in TweetPhoto, we may have spoken too soon. The reality is that even amidst the heavy competition from arguably better photo and video sharing sites for Twitter, TwitPic remains top dog, with ve...

Last week, MySpace trimmed 30 percent of its staff in the US as the social network looks to become a more “efficient and nimble team-oriented company.” Apparently that goal also includes massive cutbacks abroad, as the company announced this morning ...

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